By Joleen

Hello again, my finely feathered friends. It’s already the middle of the month, and in two weeks we’ll have to say goodbye to our September collection and welcome our October collection. (If you’re thinking about buying one of our September mats, you might want to make your move sooner rather than later, so you don’t forget. Hint, hint :-) In the meantime, however, we thought we should highlight one of our favorite designs from this month’s collection: Minnesota Home. This one is clearly special to us based on the description alone: Big Raven is a proudly Minnesota company. We grew...

This is the 17th in our ongoing series highlighting our happy yogis. This week we’re profiling the incredible Rachel Schromen. Rachel is an impressive individual. She is remarkable at helping people make connections and discover opportunities. She is SO good at connecting people whose lives will be better for having been introduced to one another. She is an incredible listener and generous friend. Every time I talk with Rachel I leave the conversation with a little nugget — some food for thought — that I’m always grateful to have in my pocket. She is helpful, kind, thoughtful, funny and beautiful, both inside and...

Two weeks ago we introduced our new Zodiac Collection, last week we (re-)highlighted our Ragnar Collection, and this week we introduce yet another new collection: Our Women Rock! Collection. Like its sibling Ragnar collection, our Women Rock! collection is aimed at both yogis and runners (a group of athletes who probably need yoga more than any other.) Yoga is not just for “yogis” — it’s beneficial and complementary to nearly every athletic endeavor, but especially to runners. You might think “sure, I can see how doing yoga before a big race would loosen up a runner’s leg muscles”, but the importance...

Today we’re highlighting one of our more unusual collections of yoga mats — our Ragnar Collection. What, you say, isn’t Ragnar all about running? But I’m a yogi! Well, it turns out a lot you yogis are also runners, and vice versa. And yoga mats aren’t just for yogis — runners need mats for stretching before and recovering after… and for sleeping on in the case of Ragnar races, which are usually overnight (which is why one of their events is called “Chase the Moon”). This weekend, runners are racing along the St. Croix river from St. Paul to Duluth, Minnesota,...

For fans of podcasts, we were recently featured in the local Makers of Minnesota podcast — season 2, episode 10. Hosted by the amazing podcaster Stephanie Hansen, we’re incredibly honored to be featured alongside such local luminaries as Urban Growler, the Minnesota Roller Girls, Tattersall Distilling, Peace Coffee, Adam Turman, Chank Diesel, and BT McElrath Chocolates! We spent a really fun afternoon with Stephanie at her beautiful digs at the University Club, perched on the bluff overlooking downtown St. Paul. Listen today, or at the gym, or during your drive! Available wherever finer podcasts are found. (But especially here.)